Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 23, 1879, Page 9

8 I be the last of the THE CIT THE THRIFTY LOBBY-cachat Beihany. HOW XE INDUCED A PROMINENT STATRDD streets. J:h- VOTE FOR IS LITZLE BILL. l’ 0‘; L evening, : L A man one time, when Congressmeh—raichies at the No matter when or who,— ét: **The Eter- Tiad 2 inttle bill which he had set fxpericnce meet- Ris heart on potting through. & 1 kmow not of this lttle bill s-at the State The nuwber or the name; 3 at Centenary, It may have been, for 2l I know, % Asunny Southern claim, — ssee, preaches One of the stoutand rowing claims D 458 Prol, That Congress uscd o pay. 11 preach-at White streets: For 1,000 bales of cotton and nees of Mang' | 6,000 bales of hay, 45 miles of fencing burned feach morning From a 40-acre lot, *nue Church, And the progeny that in sixteen years A mule would have begot; }Cch!m‘;‘c‘{:fl'fll Jt may have been a subsidy . Of 2 million dollars, or ¢o, To keep steamers running to a place Where no one cared to £o; “Wathless, whate'er the measure was, ach morni; o Tpreach morn- .ner of Falton . preach in the ‘Whate'er there was 1o do, “f Thirty-ninth Tt wwzs by 10 means an easy thing - To put the measure through, §:AL Brihanten R " M. orl.r They gatbersd to the Capital AL the services at A lobby strong and bold, p e And wires were pulied, and pins set Bpedtence And logs industrious rolled. s Aud the man who bossed the rival job, officiate morning . For a claim or subsidy 1, on Eilisavenne, He called hie lobby 1o his side, And straight the for *gan fy. And there were dinners and drinks Aud sccret interviews, And poker-games with Co Where the statreme= v o And wpr—iag Rev. Dr. Elliott will offciste in the morn- ing at St. Maithew's Church, corner Clark and Cen- tre streets. Ash Wednesday services in the even- ing, atwhich the Rev. F. W. Adams will officiate. PRESBYTEEIAN. The Rev. Arthur Swazey preaches at the Forty- first Street Church this morning. —The Ztev. J. H. Walker prezches at the Reun- fon Church wornmnge and evening. —Elder Raymond will preach morning sud cven- ing at the Burr Mission. No. 589 Third avenue. —The Rev. Prof. Fis preach in the morn- ing and the Rtev. A. E. Kittredze 1n the evening at the Third Church, corner of Ashland and Ogden avenues. The latter’s fubject will be: *Samson, or the Men Who Was Doth Stronz and Weak.” —The Itev. E. X. Barrett will preach in -the morning on *Lazarus and Dives,” at West- minster’ Church, comer of Peoria ‘and Jackson * gtreets. Gaspel meeting in the eveninz. —P'rof. Francis L. Pation will preach morning and evening at the Jeflerson Park Church. corner of Throop und Adams streets. Evening subj “+Tbe Divine: Parpore, "—the cighth of the series - in the morn- Sichigan ayenne - Subject: **How & Lose It, or May 1.7 Prof. Toumlins R85l pratsc-service in the of dircourses on the doctninal and other religious questiors of the times, i 3 —The Ilev. W.C. Youngwill preach morning and eveniny at the Follerion Avenne Churen. —The Rev. Arthur Mitchedl, pastor, will preach 8t 10:30 8. m. at the First Charch, corner of Indi- anu avenus and Twenty-frst street. Evening ‘ervice at Railrond Chapel, No, 715 State sireet. “Tue Rev. Munro Givion, D. D., pastor, will preuch murniag and evening at the Second Caurcn, corner of Mickizan avenue and Twenticthstreet. —The Rev. John Abbott French, pastor, will preach morning and evening at the Foarth Church, corner of Rush and Supertor sirects. —The Rev. James Maclaugblan, pastor. will ‘presch morning and evening 2t the Scotch Charch, corner of Sangumon and West Adams strects. —The Rev. J. Mooroe Gibson will preach in the Sccond Church, corser of Michizan avenue and Twentieth street, morning and evening. —The Rev. J. Al Worrall preaches at the Eighth Charch, corner of Washingion and Robey streets, morning 2nd evening. BAPTIST. ‘The Rev. W. W. Everts will preach in the First Church, corner of South Park avenue and Thirty- firet sizect, previous to his departure for San Fran- cisco, 8t 11 2. m. and 7:30 p, m. s —The Rev. John Peddie will preach at10:30 a, m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Second Church, corner of 2organ and West Monroe strects, —The Rev, J. W. Custis wiil preach at 10:30 a. m, at the Michigan Avenue Church, near Twen- ty-third street, —The Rev. E, B. Hulbert will vreach at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Fourth Cuurch, corner West Washington and Paulina etreets, —The Rev. A. Owen will preach at 10:30 2. m. 2nd 7:30 p. m. at the University Place Charch, corner Douglas place and Rhodes avenue.. . —The Rtev. Robert P. Allison will preachat10:45 2. m, and 7:30 p. m. 8t the North Star Charch, corner Division and Sedgwickstreezs. —The Rev. C. Perren will preach at 10:80 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Western Avenue Church, corner of Warren avenue. —The Rev. E. K. Creseey will preach at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Coventry Street Church, corper of Bloomingdsle road. = ‘—The Rev. 1. De Baptiste will preach at 11 a, m. and 7:45p. m. at Olivet.Church, Fourth a enue. near Taylor strect. . —Tke Rev. L. G. Clark will preach at 11, a. m. ot Sonth Church, corner of Locke and Bonaparte streets, —The Rev. C. E. Hewitt will preach at 10:30 2. m, and 7:30 of Lincoln and = —The K . 0. Taylor will vreach at 10:45 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. ot Central Church, No. 200 ‘Orcbard street, near Sophia street, —There wili be services at 7:30 p. m. at the Tavernacle, No. 302 Wabash avenue. —The Rev. J. Q. A. Henry will preach at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. at the Deartorn Street Chnreh, corner Thirty-sixth street. ~—The Rev. L. G. Clark ,will preach at 7:30 p. m. at the Twenty-fifth Street Church, near Went- worta avenue. —The Rev..C. Swift will presch at 10:45a. m. end 7:20 . m. at Evangel Church, Rock Island car-#bops. —The Rev. Dr. Everts preaches at the First Church morning and evening. L LUTHERAR. ‘The Rev. Edward Beifour ‘will preach morning and eveping at Trinity Church, corner of Dearbora uvenue and Erfe street. TEMPERAKCE. Mrs. J. A. Kanouse will conduct services in the church corner of Noble and Ohfo streets at 4 this atiernoon m'ii sA P l“'m-hwsmxy. —Deacon L. A. Willard will preach in the chapel :ro ulxl:.e Washizigtonian Home at 3 o'clock this after- =) NLW JERTSALEM. The Rev. L. P. Mercer wiil preach at Church, Hershey Hall. Subjecte: Mornin; ence of Popular Education on Conscience 1ng, ‘‘Bome Mictakes Abont the Bible. " CHRISTLAN. The Rev. W. T. Maupin prenches at the First Church, cornper of Indiana avcnue and Twenty- m"l!::“l:leW P. Hend : e Rev. . Mendryx preaches at th of Sonth Park avenue and Thirty-third strect. M. N. Lorg will preach morning snd evening at the Sccond Church, corner of Oakley evenue and Jackson street. . —H. V. Reed preaches at the church corner of W -g;r; avenuc aud Congress strect morning 2nd evening. the Union Influ- even- INDEPENDENT. ‘n',‘l;hcr l:l.‘\".! n}\"' “f. féfl\‘llnl le:lb ‘preach morning evening e Gosj p Nt et Macison street, v ravernacie, No. 381 —The Itev. John E. Morris will preachat the thurch orner of Fulton and May streets. Mven- ng subjects ** The Offense of the Cross,™ ~—Mceers. Pentecost and Steboins will conduct the ‘morning scrvices at the Church, corner of LaSalle street. —The Rev. A. Youker will preach atthe West- Side Tubernacle, corner of Morgan and Indiana streeis. The Tennessceans will be present in the evening. Chicago-Avenue - SPIRITUALIST. ‘The First Society will mect at the church corner of Monroe and Laflin etrects. Mrs. Cora L. V. Iichmond will lecture. Morning subject 10 be chosen by the sudience. In the evemng she will repeat the lecture deiivered in Novemoer on the condition of criminals in epirit life, and others af- Sicted with mentsl or moral obliguity, by the spir-. it of Aclin Augustus Batlon. ~ UNIVERSALIST. —The Rev. Brooke Herford will preach tn the morning, and the Rev. R. H. Pullman, of Balti- more, in the evening, atSt. Pani's Church, on Alichigen avenue, near Sixteenth street. —The Rev. Sumner Elis will h in the Church of the Redeemer, corner of Washington and Sangamon streets. In the evening he will review Mr. Pentecost's bit of bistory that *‘The Devil preached the first Universalist sermon in the Gar- den of Eden.” ] TNITARIAN. The Rev. Robert Coliyer will preach morning 2ud evening 5t Unity Churck, comer of Dearborn avenue and Walton sflflu. —The Rev. Mr. Billman, of Adrian, Mich., will preach a3 3:30 this afternoon in the Third Unitarian ‘Cnurch, corner of Monroe and Lafin strects. ~—The Rev. Dr. Xyder preaches at the Church of he Meezian in the morning, and the Rev. Brooke Uerford in the evening. The latter's subject will be: **Words; Their Use and Abase.’ —The Rev. James Kay Applebee will preach in tlic morning at tie Fourth Church, corner of Piairfe avenue aud Thirticth streef. Subject: **Province of ¥auith in the Reifgious Life.” At 3in theafter- noon he will deliver a Jecture at Hooley's Theatre ©n ~+Tom Moore, Manand Poet,” and give illus- trative recitations. BPISCOPAL. Cathedral Free Church SS. Peter and Paul, cor-. per of West Washington and Peoria strecte. The Iit. Rev. W. E, McLaren, S.T. D,, Bishop. The Rev. “d. H. Knowles, Priest in Charge. Choral erning prayer and celebration of the Holy Com- myuion at 10:30 2. m. Choral evening prayer st 7:80 p. m. —The Kev. Samuel 8. Harrg, Rector, will of- ficlate a1 10:45a. w. and 7:30 p. m. at St. James’ Chuorel, corner_of Huron ana Cass streets. Holy Communion at§ a. m. —The Rev. E. Suliivan, Rector, will officiate at 10:45a.m. 20d 7:30 p. m. at Trinity Charch, ::::ut‘r of Tiwenty-sixth street ana Michigan vezue. ~—The Rev. J. Brodberg, Rector, will oliciate 8t10:30 a. m. and 7:%0 p. m. at St. Anszarins' Churck, Sedgwick street. near Chicago avenue. —The Rev. Clinton Locke, Rector, will officiate = ‘have no bosiness in 3 battl nd they have given In n‘inl‘ty-une games the score standa: 2110:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Grace Chmrch, Wabash avenie. near. Sixteenth strect. Holy Communion atSa. m, —1'he Rev. Atthor Ritchie, Rector, will officiate ' =4 at tne Church of the-| atlla’ m. 26 7:30 p. m. Ascension. North LaSalle street, near Elm. Holy Communion atSa. m. —7The Rev. Charles Stanley Lester, Rector, will officiate ot 11 3. m. and 7:30 p. m, ut St. Paul's Church. Hyde Park avenue, between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets. > —The Ker. B. F. Flectwood, Rector, will officiate at 10:30 2’ m. and 7:30 p.m. ot St Mack's Charch, Cotwage Grove avenue, corner of Thirty- ‘sixth street. —The Rev. G. F. Coshman, Rector, will ofiiciate 2t 10:40 3. m. and7:30 p. m, 4t St.Johu's Churck, Jonean streer, betweea Taylor and Twelfth streets, —The Rer. Lutter Pardee, Rector. will officiate 2610:20 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. at Calvary Chureh, Warren avenne, between Oakley strect and West- ern avenue. lloly Communionat7:45% M. 2 The Rev. T. ., Morrison, Ttector, will officiate at10:30 8. m. 30 p. m. at Epiphany Church, and 7 Throop street, between Monroe aud Adams strects, 3 —The Rev. W. J. Petrie will -ofiiciate at 113. m. and 7:30 p. m. At the Church of Our Savior, corner of Lincolu and Belden aventes. 3 —The Rev. Henry G. Perry will ofilciate at 10:30 2. m. and 7:30 p. m. atSt. Andrew's Church, cor- Der of West Washington and Rooey strects. MISCELLANEOUS. " e Rev. A. Monroe will preach at the TUnion T:'?;rnncle. corner of Ashland avenue ng'd ‘Twen- tieth street. Evening subject: **Mercy. The Lieral meeting bas icen postpaned on ac- count of the women's mass-meeting: The Dieciples of Christ will meet 2t 4 p. m. at No. 928 West Randolph street. Dr. Matthewson will .preach morning and even- ingat the Adventists’ Tabernacle, No. 81 South Green street. e e L. Northway will lead the Railway Men's mecting at 3:30 p. m. in their room at.the corner of Canal and Kinzic streets. CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. Feb. 23—Quin: ulnzcsunn. cdnesda Feb. Sccond’ Day, of Lent. Feb. 28—Third Day of Leut. March 1—Fouith Day of Lent. . CATHOLIC. Feb. 23—Quinquagesima Sunday. Feb. 24—8t. Matbias, Ap. Feb. 25—St. Peter Damian, B. C. D. (from Feb. 23). Teb. %6—Ash-Wednesday—beginning of Lent. Feb., 2i—Feria. (Consecration” Bishop Foley, Cricago, 1670). . TFeb. 23—Most Holy Passion of Our Lord. March 1—Ferin. JUSTICE COURTS. ason's Bjll to Muke Their Judgments an TImmediate Lien. Mr. Mason introduced in the Legislatare at Spriagfield last week a bill providing for an amendment to Sec. 87 of the **Act to provide for the election and qualification of Justices of the Peace and Coastables, and to provide for the jurisdiction and practice of Justices of the Peace in civil cases, and fix ihe duties of Con- stables,” ete. The said amendment so changed the scetion as to make it read: * The renl property of any defendant in a jude- men: before a Justice of the Peace not exempt from execation, £hall be bound for the payment of such judsment from the date of the fling of a trapscript Sn the Clerk’s office, as provided 1n -this act, and no such judzinent shall be a licn upon sny ersonal property of suct defendant until an actual evy has been made thercon under cxecutlon issued by such Justice of the Peace. . ‘The scetion to which amendment’is proposed reads as follows: The personal property of every defendant in a juczment beforc a Justice of the Peace, not ‘excmpt from cxeention, ehall be bound for the payment of such jndgment from the delivery of the esecntion issued thercon. to_ the Constabie: and the real property of such defendant not exempt from execution shali be bound as_aforesaid from tlie aate of the £ling of a transcript of the jude- ment In the Clerk's office, as provided in this act. E=This last section, which is the law as itsstands upon. the statute, makes an execution, fssued Dby 2 Justice of the Peace, 3 lien upon all personality of the defendant from the time of the delivery of the exccution to the Constable; “and in addition thercto when a transeript of such jude- 1nent is filed with the Circuit - Clerk, the judg- ment becomes a lien upon all real property not exempt from execution. ; TOE PROPOSED AMERDMENT repeals that portion of the scetion making an ex- ceution a lien upou personal property after a trapseript bas been filed with the Circait Clerk. 1n oll other cases where the transeript - has not been filed the law remains unchanged.. It effect will be limited. as_there are comparatively few transcripts filed with the Cireuit Clerk. Justices an opi 0 chauge, were it made.” Would it be bepeticial? ‘T'he Justices, with one sccord, did not_care to express_any opinion, because they had not given the matter any attention and thought. One of them said that there were reasons Wiy the present law was a good one, and there were equally good reasons why the proposed chause would zive eatisfaction. For fnstance: A buys & horse from B in good faith, and, after becom- ing possessor of we avimal, learns that therc is in the hands of a Constable an execution against B’s personal property. in which the "horse §s ipcluded. The Constable takes the horse away from A, and leaves him to make B refund. Incase B bas pothing, what is A todo? Had the execution not been a lien upon that borse until it bad actually been served, A would not be put to any trouble. And yet, were it nota licn until served, the person in whose favor the execution was issued might be defrauded, for in that casc B might have soid the horse atter the exeeution issued and befare the Constable had bad timeto hunt theanimalup. There were serious objections to allowing Constables to carry other persons’ personal property around in their pockets. Again, were it decided that an execation is not a lien until actually served, leyies would be precipitated. Were an execu- tion issued against C and did the Constable not make a levy immediately C might get his pro] erty out of the way and the plaintiff would “get left "—with nothing. 8till, were a Con- stable obliged to make a levy immiediately after l('lcwiving an cxecution much harm might be onc. AS THE LAW NOW PROVIDES a Constable can make a levy at any time within seventy days. Olten persous against whom exccutions are issued arc honestly striving to pay their debts. To .make a levy upon the effects of such a person might be an act of great hardship. The Constable, sborn of his ‘power to . postpone the levy,—shorn because his exccution would be no lien until served,—could do pothing but take the goods. Now muny | Constables, knowing that the execation is a lien, nre lenient to deserving people and allow them to pay gradually,—$5 at a time. Were this privileze taken away, much harm mnizht be done. With the precipitation of levies would come an fncrease of costs, and costs were what pnor and rich alike always objected to. A levy upon houschold effects ofttn mecessitated ex- penses for. carting, storing, aud custo- dian’s fees, and these ilems sometimes omounted to $10, and even $20. Were an exe- cation not a lien until an actual levy had been made on the holder, a vast amount of swindling might be perpetrated in the use of chattel mort- gages. The man acainst whom judgment was entered and execution issued mirht mortzage his zo0as before the Constable with the execu- tion couid get around to make a levy, and thus ke beneficiary of the execution would have no redress beeause the mortzage beeame a lien he- fore ihe execution did, and would therefore take vreceaence. There is much that could be said in defense of the present law, and much might be written sbout the benefits that would arise out of a change. Thatthe proposed chanre woald at all lelp the publicis what' the reporter falled to find out as aforesaid, because the Justices had not paid the matter any thought. Cannot they do 50 for the benefit of the community, and ex- press themselves when again Tug TRIDUSE in- tervicwer goeth among them in search of opin- fons short and to the point? WORDS. ©Oh! backward, crushed and useless, send the astt, That Auger prompts thy maddened Tips to fingl Thou art but hurlins out a poisoned thing That Conscience will recall to lerce thy heart. When Hatc's wild thonghts forth to have ntt'rance start, And thence a blaspheme as their seqnence bring, Foul birds of prey, they flit on restless wing, Jiut feed on thy own soul ere they deparL. Then let thy words fali pure. of spotless white; Unloose each shininz pearl from of thy string; A star of Hope set in te doubter's nigt; Give to thy speech the rentle, tencer ring Of Love and i, Fon wpon God s ight, ‘0 every word His Son is listening. i i ELLEN GRAY. —_——— VAGUE. O broken strain of music flosting by— Abappy dream, uasullied by 3 sigh— Brizht hours that hurry by. O masic, dlling heart and wearfed brain! O vivid dreams? we wake to life and pain, And long to dream again. W As life and dreamland, blending into one— As love and music euding, half besun— So life is nearly donel ‘We turn our thongats toward the Heavenly Shore. And waxe and dresi, ond, sizhing, as before We gleep—and wake no more. “Fz£z. 16, 1879, Avis GRAY. " PARIS. More Aboui the Great French Lottery. Discontent of Unlucky Ticket-Holders-— A Personal Grievance of Your Correspondent. t The :Drs\viné of the Prizes—A Vi to the Trocadero—Soms of the Lucky Winners, The New Ministry---11. and DIme. Grevy at the Elysee---The Con- certs and Thentres. Spectal Correspondence of The Tribuns. Panis, Feb, 5.—People continue to worry themselves about the drawing of the prizes in the National Lottery here, although one would almost think there had now been time enough for every shadow of interest to cxhaust ftself. The proceedings in the Trocadero Palace are watelied daily with unabated curiosity, and cach turn of the wheel of Fortune produces as fresh aflutter of excitement as if it were to decide the allotment of another $25,000 prize, instead of one more modest, and probably wortli at the utmost a five-hundredth part of it. Gradually, lowever, as the drawingd proceed, feclings of envy, hatred, and distrust appear to be kindling in the breasts of the people who don’tqwin: by far the largest number of ticket-holders, I need scarcely; observe. 'The ladies and gentlemen who carry off good lots, in theshape of dinmond broochiés or Erard pisnos, naturally don’t find fault with the way in which matters are con- ducted; but the others are 8 DARKLY JINTING AT POSSIDLE TREACHERT, imperfections in the drawing-apparatus, and de- liberate intention to defraud. One man writes indiznantly to the papers to complain that his series—the ninth—has nardly won anything,: while others, such as the first ‘and eleventh, - nave been favored with yepeated marks of For- tune’s liberality. For -my own part, Idon’t feel thorouzhiy convinced that the eighth serfes has been eiven a fair chance; take itas persoual offense that my bundred thousand—the sixth— lias not been more distinguished by the misera- ble machine that is being set stupidly revolving for some six hours a day up at the Trocadero. But I ackmowledge that I canmot lay my finger upon any particular fact or indication’ that would - justify my Lringing o charge of fraud against the manacement; so I am forced to grumble in an undertonc. ‘If those confounded wheels would only stop at No. 626,000, or thereabouts, 1 should be much more amiably disposed to- wards the Lottery people. The other duy I walked into the Trocadero Hall for a few min- utes, to help to superintand the proceedinzs and see all fair. The method of the drawing is as slow as it is simple, but how any body in his senses can pass.hours at a time watching one man turn six wheels successively, another call out the resaltof the aforesaid turning, and third register that result ona sort of woode: signbonrd, is . MORE THAN I CAN COMPREUEND. Do . they really expect those six revolving pleces of iron will stop at their particular num- ‘ber ariy the sooner for their presence? Can they imagzine - there is some magnetic power in the glance of their wrathful eyes that must compel ‘them to obedience? Or is their persistency only a new manifestatipn of the inveterate love of idling remarkable in most Parisian rentiers, and especially in the class of retired shopkeepers? ‘What- I chicfly noticed at the Trocadero was that the handsomely-decorated ceiling of the hall—which looked so fresh and gorgeous at the time of the Exhibition—has been completely ruined by the damp. The bright-yellow tones and - the rich milding of the palm-leaves arc all blecked and biurred by the unsightly staivs, aud the whole building séems stiangcly vast and cheerléss. When:. the organ is taken away to Autcnil Churcb, as it soon will be, the aspect of the place will bo truly dismal. Before quitting this subject, allow me to cor- rect an error which crept into my Jast letter in the hurry of composition. The second grand prize in ‘the lottery—a -diamond parure, or 1ts equisalent, $20,000, was won by 2 lady—not by a gentleman—residing in Nice. Iler name is Mune. Girard, and sbe has, they say, just given an unmistakable sien of vitality by calling upon #hc zuthorities at the Tracodero and announc- ing her intention to ““elect’ for THE HARD-CASH ALTERNATIVE. Seneible, sensible creature! -Among the fortu- nate winners is also M. Tiesserene de Bort. Jr., son of the late Minister of Commerce, to whom has fallen a_fine pianoforte. I have not heard who won the grand Cavaille-Coll orzan yet. Let ushope some ood woman from the Halles or o gentleman rag-picker from the Roe Mouf- fetard, has been the Jucky person. To talk seriously, it is perfectly unreasonable for hoiders of tickets in the Lottery to com- plain of donble-dealing—save in_one detail, which I will come to presently. It should bs remembered that the enornous number of 12,- 000,000 tickets was issued, while the total num- ber ofgprizes offered, including the smallest (and there are thousands of insignineant value), did not exceed 80,000. Now make a simple cal- calation. You will find the odds against asingle ticket to be exactly as 150 to 1. against the same ticket winning eitber of the 1,277 erand prizes (all of a value surpassing $200) are approximatively as 9,383 to 1. Under the circumstances, the winners should consider themselves miracalously favored. Tn a certain matter, however, it is hardly de- niable that the hiolders of tickets Lelonging to the original or first series ARE ENTITLED TO COMPLAIN. They bourht their chance under the impression 1hat 1,000,000 of tickets only would be issucd, and that to this 1,000,000 ihere would be at least one grand prize of about $25,000. It is urged by the authorities that when they increased the issue by gradual stages to 12,000,000 the num- ber of Drizes was relatively increased in the duc vroportion. 8o it was, il farze und’ small count alike; but the number of grand orizes was not so increased. When the drawing began there was one of 325,000 only. The only other three approaching this_in value were the diamond necklaces worth $20,000, $10,000, and $10,000, respectively. All of these were offered, not to the first serics aloue, but to @Sl twelve series; and the chances of the original ticket-holders of course was diminisbed immensely. In fact the Government has been clearly gruilty of 3 breaca of contract towards the ticket-holders of Series No.1. No others Lave a rizht to complain. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS has been ended s easily as the Governmental crisis, though by a change far less radical. Sev- eral of the members in the late Dufaure Cabi- net return to otlice. A notable exception is M. Dufaure himsclf, who, sceing plainly that his jdeas are no longer advanced enough to sutisfy pudilic opinfon in France, has had the good sense o decline the cares of power and to retire from political life at a moment when fbe transient popularity acquired by the importunt part he Das played in the recent history of his conntry micht have sorely tempted him to retain offic Asit is, he is universally respected. Had he, however, foolishly clung to his post, before a monthhe would bave been as unpopular as M. Buffet. This the wary old statesman well knew. He made nis decision accordingly, and now His- tory will be able to say of him a5 of MacMahon, though more respectiully, that ¢ Nothing n his Doliuical life became ki 0 well sg the leaving of it Tro very prominent members of the Dufaure Cabinet have been reappointed. - M. Marcere— a clever but shifty and otlice-loving . Republican —is still Minister of the Interior. 5 3. WADDINGTON remains Minister for Foreien Affairs, and be- comes President of the Council. _Of their col- Teazues in the late Cabinet, MM. Leon Say and De Freyaent (Gamberta’s right-band man) and Gen. Gresley stay. The rest disappear. AL Jules Ferry replaces M. Bardousx at the Minis- iry of Pablic Instructivn and Fine Arts. Al Le Royer (en eminent jurist and an_eloguent speaker) steps into M. Dutaure's -shocs, aud takes over the work of the Justice Depart- ment. M. Lepere, formerly Sous-Secretaire to M. De Marcere at the Interior, and’ Admiral Jauregibbery, are also given portiolios, The vewceomers belong to the Kepublican Union fraction of the Rcpubli- can party, and are thercfore in harmony with AL Gambetta. Most of the others are Left- Centre men, and it may .be expected that ere many moutbs are out, these will be replaced by more adyanced members of their party. ln fact, the Waddingzon Cabinet is regarded as a travsition from the old state of things to the new. It is moderate enough not' to inspire alarm, and serves its turn well enough for the present. As I anticipated, the Monarchist papers have The chances. not allowed a chance of a¥noying the new President to pass by. M. Paul de Cassagnac’s organ, the Pays, significantly inqaires 3 WO MADAME GREVY 18, and bints that she muss enjoy very bad health, as nobody ever meets her at_her husband’s re- ceptions.” This is crue in the main, but the lady is not altogether unknown to Paris, by sight at least, for she was present, 1 recollect, at the distribution-of-prizes ceremonies in the Palais de 1'Industrie this autumn. Atali events, she scems likely to be well kuown soon, for ehe, with her husband and Mlle. Grevy, have now taken up their quarters unostentatiously at the Elysee. 1t is characteristic of the President that he effected his migration from the Rue Arnaud to- the Elysee in a hackney-carri having hitherto had nooe of their own. Repubtican simplicity of M. and Mme. Thiers— which grave considerable offense to Parisian so- clety, by-the-by—is lar aistanced by M. Grevy’s. % MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Heetor Berlioz’s “Romeo and Julict” sym- phony will be repeated at the Chatelet next Sunday. The jorices of all the seats in the house” have been raised to cunable 3L Colonne to pay the additional instrumental- ists and the choir demanded for a proper execution of the work. We are also, it seems, to have anotlier grand musical festival at the Hippodrome, on the 1lth inst., at which M. Faure will ‘sing, Mal. Saint-Saens and Ueker- It will conduct the interpretation of several of thelr own works. ‘‘LaTour de Londres,” an old-fashioned, heavy molodrams, was_revived last week at the Theatre ITistorigue. To-dav L am informed that M. Castellano, the Xistorique manacer, thinks of closinz the house over the way,—the Chatelet,—whicl he also dirccts, very shortly. This is bad news for the unnappy staft of th¢ theatre. A farcical comedy, cutitied *Le. Mari de la Debatante,” is sct down for perform- ance at the Palais Royal this evening, and *Ba- biole,” a slight.opcretta of M. Laurentde Rille’s, lias been revived at the Boul We' are also soon to have ao fntcresting proseniation of “Mithridate™ at the Francais, with Maubant, Mounet-Sully, and Sarah Bernhards in the lead- ing characters. HARRY MELTZER. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Outline of Study. To the Editor of The Tribune. Curcaco, ¥eb. 2.—The value of a system of cducation is determined by the result. ‘To be fuily efliclent; it must not only impart informa- tion, but the ability and disposition to oblain information. Every careful educator finds the greatest difficulty in adapting mcthods to the necessities of the primary grades which will produce in the least degree this happy result. Long expericnee and carcful observation have brought me to these conclusions: That the ef- fort to educate-in the public schools should be directed upon the presumption that the pupils learn nothing outside of -school; that two-flfths of those who cnter the first year never enter the fifth, but are compelled to 2o out into the great daily strugele for daily bread, in those avenues which are open to physical strength, with only the limited culture of a part or the whole of the primary grades. For this reason every year's work shouid be planoed with this possibility in view. Each - year’s course should be complete fn itself and a w finished foundation for the next year's work. ‘To this end it is necessary that no more should be undertaken than ean be finished, that the pupil whoss school work ends with any year’s worl can make-zood use of what he has learned. In the'methods of instruction the ¢ outline of the course of study” occuples the most im- portant place. It should contain nothing but what 13 of the most practical nature, and all the methoos employed in teaching should be sueh as throw the pupil upon his own resources. Nothing should be done for bim which e can be helped to do himsell. In contradistinction 1o this, the oral course, which has so generaily obtained, has been most fatal to the interests of pupils, and especially to taose whose time in school was limited to the primary grades. I will go back to the proposition that ine % out- line of study ” should contain nothing but the most practical subjects. Let thuse who have this matter upon their respousibility consider carefully whether the scicuces ol drawing ‘and music are of practical worth to the pupil whose education must be completed in the priwary grades, or whether it is just to compel those whose 'time is so precious to spend eizht weeks in the study of the ’sci- ence of music, six 1o the study of arawing, and frown eight tosixteen fnthe con- struction of sentences, during the four primary years. - A littlé computation demonstrates that the time thus spent amounts to quite one-fourth “of the 160 weeks of the primary grades. A pupil leaving school at the end o} the second-year (a3 huodreds *do) .bas learned what? They have learned much _that is valuable, but if, in addi- tion to natural ability, they are inspired witha desire to ko, they have uot acquired the least ides of where the fountain of numerical seience is concealed, for not even a primer in arith- matic hes been -placed in their hunds. They have learned one trausposition of the sca’e, but not one of them will use tois knowledee beyond the school-room. * They have learned . to draw some lines und angles, but it is only to the rare artist-born that this will ‘be avy inspiration. ‘T'hey can recitc some poetry, but where it comes from they have not . the least practical knowl- cdee. The priuted page is the oniy avenve of information “open {o " all, and yet beyond their readers—which are a3 muen a part .of iheir . school-room furniture as the desks behind which they sit— they bave never had a_glimpse at this worid of wonders. At the eod ‘of the third or fourth year, those pupils who are compelled to leave school go out into the world without the ability to decipher the English Janzuage, and without the least direction having been given to their tastes and abilities, where dime literature with its attractive and nteresting (3) illustrations is knee-deep, and, if they read at all, that is what they will read. , They have learned to, parrot- like, rearrange the words of third readers into sentences which they are taught to believe are original, embryo compositions. “The memory of the sougs und melodies they have Jearned will follow those of musical dis- position. Whether the music might not have been made the- conveyance of more sublime sentiments, whose meaning would dawn unon them as life’s experience broadened their views, is a subject worzby of thousht. I objeet to fractions in the first year. The effurt to comprehiend and handle them is too severe for minds between 6 and 7 years of age. 1 object to counting by threes aud Tours for the same reason. I object to the application of numbers to the tables of measurement and duration, for the reason that there is all that the ordinary child should learn before they are 7 years old in the. first six years work without them. 'The brilliant and extraordinary. chlld can move through the grades with velocity equal to bis ability. In the same way and for the same reason 1 would reduce the numbers in all the primary grades. I object to the scicoce of music and drawing for the reason that it is imnpossible that they can be so comoleted as to be of any use to those who cannot continue in the sehools beyond the orimary years. 1 object to composition in the primary grades for several reasons: Iirst, pupils under 10 vears of age ' bave not reached a development which enables them to reason, por an accumulation of facts fromn which to, ressou. Stcond, their tunc should be spent in learning wherk facts are to Le iound and in the accumulation of facts. Third, any effort of mind in an ucimformed state toreason will be abortive. and will divert the mind 1rom the accumulation of facis. Rath- er than composition, I would prefer to place: in the Duands of a pupil a primer 10 patural his- tary, to be succeeded by onc in physiology, mude interesting by illustrations, requesting. them to read fiftéen minutes, the teacher pro- nouneing and detining Words, but leading the pupil to obtain their information from the printed pize. I would sugeest recitations, not Friday alternoon declamatlons, but recitations in suolime sentiments in prose and rythmic poetry, until committed to memory, when cach oupil in turn shouid be permitted, after study ing the page, to read the selection to the school. I ‘were to go beyond the primary grades, I should sugeest that & primer in ‘natural phi- losophy und a collection pf stories frum history should succeed the subjects of natural bistory and physiolozy. Theold * Peter Parley Series ¥ has never been excelled. Iwell remember what delightful hours 1 spent in reading his history of Mexieo und the Montezumnus before Iwas 9 years old. Such a course of reading would be Tar more profitavle_than the Germau course of the rrammar grrades, «ny obe who really wishes to learn German can find amole opportuuty to do so,—wnile our German scholars need an fm- Detus given Lo wreir desire to read English litera- ture. For the same reasou it would be much to the interest of the German as well as the En- elish pupils if the German or Freoch course of e High School were supplanted by a eourse of reading from the Eoglish classies. Fur, while it is true that very few of the English pupils ever &0 far complete their study of German as to read Sehiller in the German tongue, 1815 equally true that vety few of the German pupils ever think of reading the English classics. - With the best in- terests of the public schoois more at heart than any et theory, I respectfully submit these criti- cisms and suggestions. . Mes. M. H. KREAMER, Teacher first year Franklin School. —————— Too Thin. Denter (Col.) Tribune. * They tell me Lc‘ad\’lllc i3 pretty high up,” remarked a Denverite to 8 vVisitor from the carbonate fiell. ¢ Hirh un!” ejaculated the other, “well, T should say. - The air is so thin that you've got to fan it to a corner to get a square breath. Why, I live sorter in a valley, but many o time when 1 went home ut night 1 Dbad to push a cloud from the door to get in. THE GAME OF CHESS Commiunications for this department should h: addressed to Tug TrnoNE and indorsed **Chess. CIIESS DIRECTORY. Cittcaco Crrss Cren—No. 50 Dearborn street. 150 Dearborn steeet, opposite Trisuse Bullding. Chess-players meet daily ot the Sherman Hous (Basement) and Tremont ouse (Exchange). TO CORRESPONDENTS. C. ., city.—Your problem 1s unsound. R. AL C.—Black can play2..K to K 4, which de- feats your proposed solution to No. 105. E. R. B., city.—We think yon are at fault In Problem No. 166. Yon donot give the defense, 1..Kt takes P. Problem No. -163.—Correct ‘soluticn received from E. C. Philltps, E.-Barbe, and E. R. B.,city ; N. M. 8choff, Ann Arbor, Mich. N. M. §.,. Ann Arbor, Mich.—We can find no flaw in the solutions you send. That to the Enigma is remarkably neat for a second solution. C. W. D., Cedar Rapids, Jo.—We hsve every reason to believe that Problem No. 165 is perfectly sound. The few that have solved itseem to be satisfied on that point. E. B.. city.~Numerons solations received to Problem’ No. 166 commence with 1..B 1o B 2, £V, 1. 0." also claims asolution by 1..Rto Q. Kt4. As it is impossible that the problem can admit of more than one solutlon, yon have, of coarse, n satisfactory defense to both the above. Wo confess our inability to wriggle out of It. . An esteemed correspondent writcs: ¢*In the gnme published in Tis RIcurE last Sunday, if am not mistaken, Black can mate in two moves. In- stead of four. as fotlows: 29..D to K B 4 {Black anvthing), 30..R mates.” Itis singular that so simple 2 mate should bave been oyerlooked and one much more difficnlt foreseen 2nd announced. PROBLEM NO. 167. BY 6. T. DOWEN, CHICAGO. Black. 7 R i | | e Wl W White. White to play and mate in throe moves. % - SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 165. aite, Blac, 1.Etolts K1Q6 2.QtoQB4ch K takesQ SIREtoR 5 mate KioB4 2 3:&: Kusfh ite K takes Q 0 Q 4 mi PtoB7 2.4 tafil}lch Aoves 3.Jto K Kv4 mate SOLUTION TO ENIGMA. roblem has unfortunately proved to be This ‘The suthor’s solution i as follows: unsound. sq P moves 3 litto K Kesq 5..P takes B 3.-R takes B mate N. M. Schof also solses it by ‘White. Black. T1.BlOK3 1..P moves [Kttakes B 2..Pmaves 8UIB takes P 30K takes K¢ 4.1t mates i bl akes 3..BtoQDe ay 4. 1t mates ‘There is still another solation, we believe, by 1.. Kt takes B, followed by 2..R to K 8. The match between Hessrs. Adair and Tedemann i progressing slowly, owing to_business engage- meats. The contost Tias been very close so far, cuch having won two, and two beinz drawn. One +or two of these games will bs given in next Sun- day’s issne. END-GAME.—Br Iignn Krixa. White—Kine at Q It third: Queen at Q Raixth. Biack—hlng at Q & eizhth: Queen at K 1 fourth:. Pawnaat K fourth, Q B fourts, @ Kt sk, and-Q ¢ White to play and win, CHESS IN ENGLAND. A lively game, recently played at Manchester be- tween Mr. Blackhurne ang Messrs. Giltray and Wilson. The notes are by Mr. Potter, in the Jan- uary number of Westminster Papers. BCOTII GAMDIT. Black~Mesrs. Giltray and Witaon. White—Mr. Dlackburae. 1L.PtoK = o 2. Ktto KBS 3. Ku%-l 4. t takes P 5. toK3 g P10QD3 7 10 QB4 8..Castlls 9. Ktto Q3 Tto Kz ttaB5 takzs B to Kt takes I Kt tazes P ) takq 2.1 to it 89 27 Ktto By Y Resigna. (1) Mr. Blackburne approves of this, but until the apnearance of further lizht I prefer 7. Kt to K. 4, followed by the text move if and when neces- sary. (b) Best no doubt, for if 1. t to B4, then Q Kt to B 6 ch, 16..KtoRsq, BtoRO, with the advantage. (¢) They should_certainly take the R, followed, if 19..Q tnkes KL P, by k10 K 8q, whereby there would be two pieces bearing down on the adverse Knight. (d) This fine move may seem to be a flash of un- necessary ingenuiiy, baving rezard to the plausivle “{m“ of 22Kt to B 6 ch; but the Jatter continu- ation will be found upon examination to be by no means 0 satisfuctory for White as might be ex- Jocted: and in any ese the superiority of Mr. lackburne’s conception will become clear enough. (¢) They have mothing better. be made their Queen is lost. Whatever move SOME CURIOUS FACTS AND CONJECTURES REGARDING TIE **ROYAL GAME.” A correspondent of the New York Evening Fost thus entertaninaly writes abous the mysterica of the game of chess; The orizin and history of the game of chees form amost curious and interesting ‘stady, upon which an immense number of volumes have been writien, in prose and verse, in Latin, in Hebrew, and in nearly every hiving Eurovcan tongue, and by au- thors of vanous degrces, ineluding at least one King (Alphonso X. of Casfile),and. tradition say. one Pope (Inrocent IIL.). The different qu tions, to the sojution of which so_much labor has been givon, arise with respect to mot only the pame itself, but also the name and origin of the Queen, tne bishop, the castle or rook, tac other pieces—the King, the knight, and the pawn—hav- 1n remained substantiaily unchanged, except with Tespect {0 their moves, since the earliest tune to which the records of the yume uxtend, to-wit: about 4, 000 years before the commencement of the Chrlatidn eri., 5 Onc of the most interesting and instractive books upon this subject is the -+*Syntagma Diseerta- tionum " of Thomas fyde, LL.D.,” Professor of Arabic In_Oxford University, published in 1604, which contatns, besides the author's own contri- butions to the subiect, copics of manuscript Works of very early authors, smong them three celebrated ebrew troatises, translated into Latin by the learncd docor, in_two of which the picce -under consideration 1s called by a _name which ite tran: lutes ** elepnns." /his book, and the ** Obsers: tions on the Origin of Chess,’ ctc., by Dr..Dun- can Forbes, published m Loudon in' 1853, contmn the fullest and wmost trustworthy accounts of the subjoct under conaideration easily acccseible to s moderns. These Wworks dyreen attributing the origin of the game to India, whence it passed into Persta and Arania about the sixth _century, and from the latter countries into Europe two or three cenuurics later. Tt nas underzone many modifleations since 18 introduction into Europe, but the sume has re- mained substantiaily as we' now play it since tho sixtecnth century, whici is_doubtless the reason why that was savposed to be the time when the pleces which move diagonally were firat cslled isnops. 3 Tac zame, as imported into Enrope from Arabia, represented o tattle, the piece now calicd the queen beine the king's vizier or commander-in- chief, the rook beinz a war dromedary, angd the bishop a war clephunt. Accardinaly, the Eastern name of the latier plece was ** phil, *'signifyingan eleplant, or, with the Aratic article added, **al .”" This nameo1s Latinized into ** alphilns,” ten corrupted 4% **ulpizinis, ” which, perhaps becansy its origin wis forzotter, gradually came to beregarded s a proper bame.” D ilyde says (1 translatate somewhat freely from his Latin): +*The Earopeans chanse the ame from the repre- sentation of a dattle 1o that of the court, anG thus Lave introduced the bisnop znd the queen, who them the sccond and third places in° sccordance with the ctiguette of the conrt.” B T cannot assertain precisely when this change took pace, but it was probably about the twelfth century, for one of the Hebrew trextiscs contdined in Dr. Hyde's work, in which the old nzmes of the picces are given, was about that date. for the au- thor was born and died in that century s while in the Latin poem already referred to, which Dr. Forbes thinks is of the same_century, the second biece 18 called **rezina,” and the third ** calvud.”: i, Tut in nearly all the works of that period. and for two or three centuries later, the third piece. notwithetan:ing the change 1n i3 symbolivm, still retained the name *‘alohilus™ or -‘‘alphinns,” \which became, inthe vernacularof manv Eoropean countries, converted to **alfin. ‘-auphin,” 41, and othet ‘similar names, ‘and thence nnderwent soveral varintions of gound and meaning, some of - which are yot preserved. Thus the Spanlards call the piece **aifcrez,” the Iralians “*alficro, which are evidently -derived from ‘‘al phil.” On the other hand, the Ressians and the Swedes have pre- gerved the original name, as _they still ball it the, clephant. I confess mysclf unable satisfictorily To account for the Germuanname of the piece,— “*Jaufer, the hound or runners but the origiu of the French name -* fol,” modernized into **fou,” the foo or jester, is clearly traceable, - Here L will let old Dr. Hyde—anaint and insalar as he is with all hig learning—speak azsin: ‘*The French.” he. savs, .-tinding in this place o “fil,’ and mot koowing what it was, suosti- tuted something better known to them, - ‘fol.”. which signifiess fool, who cannot have a place: either in war or the political cconumy of 3 King- om, unless perhaps they foolishiy thoasht thut e jester or mime of -the” King was to he intro- duced here. The Germans piaced herc a foot- ranner (pedisscquum), or, worse yet, a dog; which shows how littic they understood the zame. :The Itahons placed hero an . ‘zltiero,” who is the al- fercz' of the Spaniards, that 18 the stundard- bearer, which Is more to be approved.” ‘As regards the name **bishop as we call the plece in English, in which the Danesana Portu— guese agree with us, 1t was doubtless given to the piece as a conseqnence of the changze in the tacory of the game, which Dr. Hyde mentions. in recog-- | nition of the ccclosiastical clement, which is also recognized by the, word **caivug,’ applied, as already stated, to the picce in the Latin poem copied by Dr. Hyde. Dut I have very conclusive evidence in my own possession that the plece \vas thus mamed long before the moderniza- tion of the mame in the sistcenth: century, and in the conntry where 1t is now regarded as symbol- izinz o standard-bearer. 1n an illummated manu- script of the thirteenth century, belonging to me, which came from Italy, and which was exhibited during the pust year in the Loan Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Arz, i6 u treatise in Latin hesameters - upon - the game of chess, in which, after describing the pieces and the moves, (the bishops bemz desisnated as *‘alphynns™), the author states that tue chees-hoard represents the sky; the squares the coasteliutionss und the pleces the plancts, nmone which, of *coure, the sun and moon were then supposed-to be included. Te then says: *+Rex cat sol; pedes cst Saturnus; Mars quogne milca; regia virgo Venus; Alphynus Episcopus ipse est Iuppiter; et roccus discurrens luna. ™ I translate thus, using the modern and English names of the otner pieces: ' o **The king is the sun; the pswn fs Satamn; the knlght is Mars; the queén 19 Venus; Alphynus the Bishop 18 Jupirer; ana the. castle (rook) the wanderin moon.™ - . i THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS. Commanications intended for Tuz DmAvant ‘Enrror should be addressed to 0. D. Ozvis, P.-0. Box 215, Chicago, 1L For Pablisher's price-list of standard works on the game, address the Draught Editor. TLAYCES' HEADQUARTERS, Athenmum, No. 50 Dearborn street. TRIBUKE OFFICE, Cmicaco, Feb. 23, 1879, 5 PROBLE} NO. 106. - By H. D. Lruax, Washington, D. C. White. ~ i % D05 74 /"/'f///." Yitith e 7 éf//% 4 T bt : * Black to-move and win’ . . The above problem appeared as No. 28, Vol. 25, in the New York Clipper dedicated to Mr. A. J. Dnanlap. Over 150 solutions were ent in, many of - which _were, of course, wrone. Vr. J. D. Jan- vier, Newcastle, Del., has arranzed all the best play received, and forwarded the same to Mr. C. Herter, of this city, and thinks there i3 stili moch room for improvement. What is wanted is the shortest soand method of solving the problem. Our Western critics and analyzers arc requested to graoole this problem and eend in their sojutions. Alr. Hefter will then arrange all the best play for publication in tais colnmn. Vo POSITION NO. 106. S By Moses Farysworty, Philo, JIl. Black menon 2, 5, 7, 9, 10. 12, 18. White men on 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 26, 3L White to move and win. TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. W. Brooks—Solutions quite correct. €. 0. Northrop—Received with thanks. George Conway—It will o in as a Position. A. 5. Ingalls—You arrived at the right reeult. . F.S., Brooklyn, N. Y.—Subscription re- newed. - J. D. Ambrose—Will publish the game. think the paper very good. John Kirk—Proof slips mailed. (2) We woald Iike the correspondence games. C. E. Harris—Corroctly solved. (2) Wish you would éend in a specimen of those zames. Henry Ryan—Problems are placed on file. You shonld uiways send vour solution. (2) Tug Sus- DAY TRIBUNE {8 $2.50 a year. 2 H. C. Chipman—Your problem is oll ont of joint. Cannot place #ingle man and King ooth on 9,—i.e., according to mocern scicace of the game you can't. Neltner can King leap from 32 to 13 witliout break- ing his neck, according to Anderson. 1t needs re- constructing—or gomething. A. Mack—The draught-board is numbered from 1toi2, Begin at the upper left hand corner and. | number from left to right acrods the board (the shme as yon wonld read) tili you reaca the bottom right hand corner, whicl is aquare 52, The Black men always occapy the side of the board beginning with the small numbess. (2) Price-hist mailed. CONTRIBUTORS' CRITICISIS, Mr. E. 1. Dryant., Waverls, Ta.. writes 85 fol: Tows} **%the fourth mova’ of Mr. Greealus's: criticisn on my ploy in Jash Sunday's fsene. the plecos stand as forlows: Black meu on 3, 5. ) 23, White men op 12, 13.’ 15, 22, " Tiiack o move. Mr. Greenlos playh Tosulting ina draw. Tsustitn my clatm 4023, 23—14," 9—25, and a y Tlack ivin Is apparent, A da 4 (2) We A CHECKERED ROMANCE. ICRIRED TO YE DRAUGHTS EDITOR, cen. of South Ecaoston, T, o, "' when Saidior o Mill vy (L ereorawire, uter,” whosé *“hame ™ was In By sce, 01 ** Whilter, " of Made love tg U g ** Denn {t Turled * Deflance, " and vowed hie wouald kil Any ** Crose* old ttrnudieon who st Of ais clalming her hand on * om‘?dsu.'x'?'ddl;'yfhg i ] So, mext he betook him to, ** Edlnburr: " %itie * Latrd and Lacy's” fair danaiter o mes But thatcoy ** Avrilre Lassio " did nothing but frows, For sue was betrothed o a youth, of * Duadeo e (Azular chotce, a3 all mugt agree)—- § ek Doctor 1 w0 at **Sigle Cornor ™ L Bus prefeired togo ouble,"ilin¢ 1o, 1o get most At last, to hisurcle, one ¢ "ot * " e whote: aud reidied s socpam OF " Bristal ¥izcd himn to purchiasea 'Ad boldly resew: o 16 morsaye PiFtol s search for a sutfable perzon to Wife, And ** Centre on her his aifections for life: An **Irreguiar - & drrem move,” and fraught with much No valley 20 low and no mona b 1. € seaaned it hizh and o, o blgb, earch of uame ** Swite) phiad set btvvoor sout 2l iy Blance of whote eye ut sl 1 13 horrible prése ik a *- Will o the Wisp ™ fiv o e dew Or'a meteor spurk, whose ¥ i oo t B> dosslays . “rIELRess drew And naughit could : -1 24 “U1ll her ** ln\';gr"bo} f:ka ""E;Ji:g""‘:nnflm . CHECKER CHATTER. r. Henry Spaytly, of Buffalo, N. Y., auth the * American Draught-Playor.™ was' i Obivags afew duys ago on pasiness. o7 "8 18 Chicago Mr. Wyllie visited the - Club at Bridget - Iand, recently. where he played mmfii?-;uffg:. winning toirty-two, and four games iwere drawn. Mr. James Reed, Jr., offersto pla; . of the Now Yotk tournament a ‘mitch of. Biis gimosfora siako of S300. Me, 1s also wiifins to ner match in Philadelphin - stalie of $200. _Finewy httle Roed, P fOF An old subscriber to this column, renewing his subserption. rites in tho following staains - 1 am lost without Tux TRiBrNE, and would no more think of givinz it up than of refusing e good sup- per nfter a forty days’ fast, or decliaing o sleigh- ride witn the fair aamsels who srace the rolling prairies and tofted knoils of Northern Wisconsim.” ‘The final match for the State championship te- tween Mr. M. 4. Merry. of Lonsdaio, and Mr. C. 1L Freeman, of this city, was completed on the 8th. Score: Freeman, 123 Merry, 21 drawn, 10.. 0a: Freoman, TY, Wh held the title for tcn ‘years, 1e satlsfied that i Freeman has earned’ the title of Champion of Rhode 1stand. — Providence Ecio. The individual acores in the New York Drangyg Tourpament at last advices stand as follows: 34: Merry, 13: druwn, 44 Mr. TWon. Lost. Draiwen. Toa, Sehaefer. 9 7 10 a “Coakl: s g b 1= = 15 12 b 2 1 x § 12 1t 8 18 5 < $OLUTION TO PROBLEM Xo. 105, By W. K. Abbott. SOLUTION To P0SITION No. 103, By David Millar. —7 - |16—19 {31—2% [Black 16 | 2817 Bl wias, GAME NO. 222—SINGLE CORNER, Played between P. H. Roner, of Onei Ransom, of Littie Falls, N. Y. da, and I, Ransomis move. 3— 7 (2); 1722 2-18" | li-§ 15—17 ) 16 ‘os—2i | 20 214 (a) 1317 draws—1L. F. 8. GAME NO. .323—AYRSHIRE LASSIE. P. J. Hickey, Dubuqrue, In. Submitted 33 4 condensed'review of Game 318." : 19-10 2—7 - By wins. 2315 () Iconsider the zame a Black win from this point. Abler criticsthan myself, however,” clam it drawn. (b) - Mr. Greenlee thinks this move will draw, buz sent no piay to that efect. I think it aa ey Bluck win. Variations 1, 2, 3, and + have never been pubhished, butin order.to prove 50—28 a loss, T of course have had to show that 18—15 wasno draw. I give the hoys a good chance to hole this,— they will zet left if tney try it. I fiad no *‘1attered fragments to gatherup”in Game 319. 1t is sonnd. P.J.E ———— APPELLATE COURT PRACTICE. Doublo Transeripts Useless—Enormonus Cost of Making Them. To the Edltor of The Tribune. Cu1caGo, Feb. 22.—One of the proposed amendments to the Practice act of the Appellats Court is that of transmittinz to the Supreme Court, in cases of apoea! to it from the Appellsts Court, the same transcript or copy of the record of the Court below filed in the Appellate Court, instead ot incurring the useless expense and trouble of agzain making 2 copy of that tram- seript to file. . As will be scen, this is a matter of importance to litizants. The Clerks of the Appellate Court are enti- tled to the same fees as those of the Supreme Court, and those fecs are (Sec. 12, p. 459, Hurd's Stat., 1877) fiftecn cents for each hundred words! = For ‘the same service the Clerks of theCir- cuit Court, receive ten cenls for each 100 words, and that is too high by 80 per cent. 41§ éven-centd per 100 words woald be good wares- OTité ¢63t¢'6f e transcrit.of the record thus depending on'its length, in some cases amounts .to: $1,000, and rarely is less than 0, and is ‘so onerous n charge that if I cen be avoided it should be. The mere copying of a copy. when the copy itself could serve the _purpofe ns well, and when that copy costs 0 per cent more than the orizinal copy, strikes any ordinary mind simply as throwing’ away 8o much money. * When the case is disposed of in the Appellate Court the transcript of 'the record filed there is substaotially useless. When the Anpellate Cours affirms the judement of the Court below or remands it; with ‘such dircetions as that no further proceedings can be had in the Court be- low, the .Supreme Court can review tne jude- ment of the Appeilate Court. For that review the transcript of the record i3 necgssary, and why not transmit the record itseif bodily, Instead of being at the expense of making a co::{ of it? Inail the districts except the First—the one in which Chicazo is situated—the transcript in cases of “apoeal would be still in the same city, the offices of the Clerks of the Second, Third, and Fourth Aoppellate Districts being in the same cities a3 those in which the offices of the Clerks of the Supreme Court for the Northern, Central, and Southerp Divisiors are situated. The transeripts are then readily accessible to any one desiring torefer to them. It will be recollected that, in case of affirmance, no opin- fon is written, and the case is simply at an end, 80 far as the Appellate Court is concerned, and goes back to the Court below. In case of ‘reversal and remanding with final dircetions, then it zoes back to the Court below. So that in those cases the transcrips is merely 8 piece of paper which has served the temporary use for which it was procured. ‘ Its actual custody 13 just as well in one "place as in another. But if the parties when taking an appeal from the Appelate Courtto the Sapreme Court are to be put to_the expease of - vayiug fora copy of this copy 50 per cent moro than its original cost, some good and valid reason should be shown for such an unnecessary and tujust pracedure. 1f it i3 thought ddvieable that n record should beon filein the Appellate Court, the Supreme " Court can send the one it has used back to the Appellate Court in the final disposition of the casc. "Oune transeript should serve all the pur- foges of an appeat to the Court of last apocal. t i3 earnestly hoped that the amendment W pass. Wk, ISABELLA. O tell me not she’s dead; she lives. I am more dead than she: Tis death that here Ler life survives— Her life s by death set free. O free from tears, from pain, from Wrong, To walk the golden street, *Mid joys wherewith the ransomed throng ‘Their blessed Savior greet; Where mother clasps her long-mourned soa . _In never-cuding bliss; ‘' Where Faiti's triumphant crown 1s wom: That, that Is lifa—not this. Yes, cold her lips T madiy Kiss; . Her bosom knows no thrill; Affection's warm responSe I miss From heart and-hands now still. I'wildly call her dear, sweet name, And st to hear her apeak; Bat Silence locks her moveless frame, And peace seals brow aad cheek. 0 she's not here; she’s gone—she's gona. Her soal, her life, her love. ‘That onte this casket’s jewels shone, Now drink God's light avove. But O in darkness here T grope, In louely walks obscure; No more shines out Life's star of Hopt To make my footsteps sure. I stretch my empty arms in vain, And call my other self; o form, no voice comes back again But Echo’s, mocking elf. Yet know T, in my anenish keen, ‘That still my life thoo arts 1 feel thy presence, like unseen, Seft beatings of my heart. I clasp thy picture to my breast— yes 118 beauties trace; Butin my soul thy image pressed * Has all thy liviog grace. Dear spirit-wife, sweet love, my friend, A Nature's yearntnes mourn, Cpine, lead me to Life's josous end, ~For where tbon art 's my bourn. ? HeNRY FAUNTLEZOY. ——— A Lady’s Benevolence. Mrs. J. J. Astor within the pabt ten years Eas provided homes in the conntry for 450 boys {rom 6 to 18 years of age, atan cxpeuse Of 36,700 ‘These boys are scli-aupporting und doiog welle